Hat-pin.



No.857,614 P w. GASKELL & T. VALVE.

HA'T PIN. APPLICATION FILED 0OT.16,1906

ATEN-TED JUNE 25, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

HAT-PIN.)

- i No. 857,614.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

duplication filed October 16, 1906. Serial No. 339,191

I To "all whom it may concern Be it known that we, VVILLIAM GASKELL and THOMAS VALE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Fayette City, in the county-of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference being hgd therein to the accompanying drawing.

' a This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hat pins and the invention has for its object the provision of novel means in connection with a pin, for retaining the same in a hat.

'Another object of this invention is to provide a sim 1e and inexpensive hat pin which can be easi y and quicklymanipulated without injuring the hat.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended c aims.

Referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which:

Figure'1 is a plan of our improved pin, Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the movable member of the pin, Fig. 3 is an enlarged fra mentary-sectional view of said member, an Fig. 4 is a detail. of-one of the push pins of the member.

To put our invention into ractice, we em- [ploy an ordinary hat pin 1 aving an ornamental head 2. Thefpin 1 adjacent to the pointed end 3 thereof is provided with a plurality of circumferentially arranged grooves '4. A removable member 5 is adapted to slide on the pin 1, and has a bore 6 formed therein in whic is threadeda cap-7 having an opening '8 adapted to aline with the opening 9 of themember '5 whereby the pin 1 can 'pass through saidmember. Communicating with the bore 6 are two 'dfwmetrically o.

posed openings '10 containn glspringhe d push pins 11, said pins having ads or buttons 12. The innerends of the pins are looselyyconnected, tolevers 14, said levers being pivotally mountedin the bore 6 as at 1 5 and formed with inwardly extending ends 16 adapted to engage in one of the grooves'4 of the pin; The levers 14 are normally held in engagement with the pin by the springs forcing pins 11 outwardly, and when it is desired to adjust or remove the member 5 from the pin 1, the push pins 11 are forced inwardly to disengage the inwardly bentends 16 of the levers from the pin 1 After the hat pin 1 has been passed through a hat, the member 5 is placed upon the end of the pin and moved until it engages the hat,

at which time it is locked in the groove 4' It will thus be im ossi-' nearest to the hat. ble for the hat .pin to become lost or "sengaged from the hat in which it is placed.

We do not care to confine ourselves to the.

style of pin in connection with which the member 1s used, and such otherichanges as are permissible by the appended claims, may

be resorted to without member apertured to receive the hat pin and bored in one end, a plug threaded into said bore and centrally apertured to receive the hat pin, a pair of levers pivoted in the bone of said securing member at opposite sides :of

eparting from the spirit and scope of the invention. a What I claim and desire to secure by Let-v the hat pin and having their outer ends.

turned inwardly toward the pin to engage in said circuniferentially arranged grooves in the pin, ush pins ivotally connected to the inner en s of said evers and extending outwardly through the securing member and having heads on their outer ends, ands rings arranged on said push pins between t e levers and the heads for normally holding the 'inturned ends of said levers in engagement with the pin.

2. A hat pin having a fixed head and having a plurality of grooves adjacent itspointed end, a removable securing member slidable onthe pin and having an enlarged bore in one end, the walls of which are free'from engagement with the pin, a lever pivoted within the ice bore of said securing member and having its l I In testimony whereof we' affix our signs outer end turned inwardly toward the pin to tures in the presence oftwq witnesses. engage the grooves thereof, and a spring WILLIAM GASKELL. pressed push pinpivotally connected to the THOMAS VALE.

5 lnner end of said lever and extending out- Witnesses:

Wardly through the securing member, sub- JOHN WAREING, stantially as described. 'IHOMAs SKINNER. 

